5 sentences with 'villagers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word villagers and other words derived from it.
• « Over time, villagers realised that they had to work together to build larger-scale channels and dykes to protect themselves from flooding. »
• « The French massacred villagers suspected of collaborating with the guerrillas, but the massacres only turned more Spanish peasants against them. Napoleon sent hundreds of thousands of men into Spain in a vain attempt to turn the tide and pacify it; instead, he found his best troops trapped in a war that refused to play by his rules. »
• « By 1952, a complex web of nationalist rebels, impoverished villagers and farmers, and counter-insurgent fighters plunged the country of Kenya into civil war. »
• « In the Aran valley, surrounded by peaks between 2500 and 3000 metres above sea level, isolated villagers speak a variant of Gascon dating back a millennium, while in bustling, cosmopolitan Barcelona, shops showcase Parisian fashions alongside the creations of avant-garde Catalan couturiers. »
• « All events had a spiritual connotation. Illness, for example, could be a sign that a person had sinned, while crop failures could be the result of villagers not saying their prayers. »